Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xiii
4. Part I Sex 1
5. Introduction 1
6. Sister Mariana’s Spyglass 8
7. “Unfortunate Attachments” 12
8. “Sex Isn’t Just Having Babies . . .” 17
9. PrEP, the Pill, and the Fear of Promiscuity 22
10. How to Do It 29
11. Part II Contraception
12. Introduction 35
13. Birth Control on Display, or What Do I Do with All These IUDs? 39
14. IUDs and Their Legacy in China 46
15. The Women’s Health Movement and the Dream of the Diaphragms 51
16. “Just a Pinch” 56
17. The Pills 61
18. Part III Pregnancy
19. Introduction 67
20. Where a Pregnancy Can Last for Years 73
21. Eugenic Babies and the Dark History of Sperm Donations 79
22. How I Met My Mother 84
23. Midwives and Pregnant Transgender Men 89
24. Part IV Abortion
25. Introduction 95
26. Pigeons and Blasphemy 100
27. Coat Hangers and Knitting Needles 105
28. The Miseries and Heartbreaks of Backstreet Abortions 109
29. What Feminists Did the Last Time Abortion Was Illegal 116
30. Who Roe Failed 121
31. Retirement Life 125
32. Part V Loss
33. Introduction 131
34. The Evidence of Infanticide 136
35. Maternal Grief in Black and White 141
36. Infant and Child Mortality and Black Activism in the Progressive Era 146
37. Historicizing Stillbirth 150
38. On Mothers Who Kill and the Racialization of Postpartum Mental Illness 156
39. Enforcing Death Rituals after Miscarriage Is Just Plain Cruel 162
40. No One Has the Same Forty Weeks 165
41. Part VI Childbirth
42. Introduction 171
43. How My Postpartum Guilt Was Healed by a Seventeenth- Century Poet 176
44. What to Expect When You’re Expiring 181
45. “For Serving as Midwife” 186
46. Is Childbirth Painful? Or, A Short History of Medicine and Culture 190
47. Constructing the Modern American Midwife 195
48. The Magic Liquid That Guarantees the Life of the Infant 199
49. Theresa Ventura
50. Introduction 207
51. The Black Politics of Eugenics 211
52. Training Future Wives and Mothers 215
53. “The Torture Began” 221
54. What Do You Think I’m Worth? 225
55. When the War on Rape Met the War on Crime 230
56. The Stain of Slavery Is Silencing Sexual Vio lence against Black and Brown Women 235
57. “Consent”-to-Yes and Pelvic Healthcare Examinations 240
58. “If They Were White and Insured, Would They Have Died?” 245
59. Part VIII Justice
60. Introduction 253
61. Why We Need the Pink Triangle in the Era of “ Don’t Say Gay” 257
62. Silence and Noise 263
63. “The Sex Lady Talks” 268
64. Talking Back to the National Institutes of Health 272
65. The Politics of U.S.- Mexico Border Rule and Reproductive (In)Justice 276
66. Sovereignty over Our Own Bodies 282
67. Deep in the Heartbeat of Texas 287
68. Acknowledgments 293
69. About the Editors 295
70. Notes on Contributors 297
71. Index 301